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<tr><td width="30"> </td><td width="470"><font size="2"><strong>April 15, 2003</strong> [posted]</font><br /></td><td width="30"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td width="30"> </td><td width="470"><font size="5"><strong>CANCERLIT<sup><font size=-2>®</font></sup>
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Retired, NCI and NLM
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Collaborate to Improve Access to Cancer-Related PubMed Citations</strong></font><br /></td><td width="30"> </td>
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s of April 4, 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has retired its CANCERLIT database and is linking
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users of NCI's <a href="http://Cancer.gov">Cancer.gov</a> Web site directly to NLM's PubMed<sup><font size=-2>®</font></sup> database for
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journal citations. NCI and NLM
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are working together in several ways to improve access to cancer-related citations in PubMed.
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<p><strong>Improvements In Progress</strong><br />
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NCI and NLM will develop and maintain a Cancer Subset on PubMed to help searchers who want to
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limit their results to cancer-related citations. This subset should be available for use by the
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end of April; in the interim, NCI is advising its users to append the word <strong>cancer</strong> to searches they
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wish to restrict in this way, as this will accomplish most of the desired effect. Following initial
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implementation of the cancer subset, NCI and NLM will review the subset strategy at least annually
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to ensure that it remains current and comprehensive.
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NCI's specialized <a href="http://cancer.gov/search/search_cancertopics.aspx">
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Cancer Topic Searches</a> have been expanded and redefined to return results directly from
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PubMed, and efforts are underway to further extend the scope and availability of this service. Users should
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check this convenient list of searches to see if the specific cancer topic they want to search has
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already been developed as a strategy, e.g., bone sarcoma. If so, the PubMed results are only a click
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away and the baseline strategy can be adjusted further, if desired.
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At some point in the future, the new NCI Thesaurus will be inserted into the UMLS Metathesaurus.
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The UMLS is part of PubMed's <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html#AutomaticTermMapping">Automatic Term Mapping</a>, so searches will include the appropriate
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MeSH concept term for the cancer term. Until that implementation, terms that do not map to MeSH
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vocabulary can be entered using double quotes, as NCI and NLM have augmented the PubMed index of
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searchable terms with over 17,000 phrases from the NCI Thesaurus not previously
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found in the PubMed index, e.g., <strong>"surface osteosarcoma"</strong>. The new NCI Thesaurus currently includes
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some 5,500 neoplasm concepts with 35,000 synonyms as well as
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some 20,000 other concepts often related to cancer.
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<p><strong>Background</strong><br />
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For nearly 30 years, CANCERLIT combined cancer-related MEDLINE citations with a much smaller
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number of meeting abstracts, monographs, and other materials. Almost all of these materials
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have become directly accessible via the Web, and NCI stopped adding these extra contents after
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1999. As the clinical and research value of CANCERLIT's added content diminished, and PubMed's
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features improved, NCI decided that the costs and delays of creating a separate
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database were no longer warranted.
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NCI is exploring ways to help provide access to any such materials of continuing value.
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One of the most-used additions was meeting abstracts from the American Society of Clinical
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Oncology (ASCO); NCI has provided ASCO with a full set of abstracts from 1995-1999, to fill
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in its Web-accessible collection of meeting abstracts.
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For more information or to ask a specific question about the changes to Cancer.gov's cancer
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literature search options, please use the Cancer.gov
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<a href="http://cancer.gov/contact/form_contact.aspx">Contact Us</a> form or send an email message to
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<a href="mailto:ncicancergovstaff@mail.nih.gov">ncicancergovstaff@mail.nih.gov</a>. Special arrangements
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regarding access to
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CANCERLIT contents may also be discussed with Dr. Richard Manrow at (301) 496-9096.
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<strong>By Larry Wright</strong><br />
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<strong>NCI Office of Communications/Office of Cancer Information Products and Systems</strong><br />
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<em>Wright L. CANCERLIT<sup><font size=-2>®</font></sup> Retired, NCI and NLM
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Collaborate to Improve Access to Cancer-Related PubMed Citations. NLM Tech Bull. 2003 Mar-Apr;(331):e9.</em>
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